Kim Basinger Confirmed Hot Studio Hook-Up With Prince Can Be Heard in His Song
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Batman, Kim Basinger , and Prince might sound like three things that don’t go together today, but in the late ’80s, these three pop culture icons collided. Prince recorded the 1989 soundtrack for Tim Burton’s Batman , which stars Michael Keaton as the superhero and Basinger, who Prince was dating at the time, as Vicki Vale. During their relationship, Basinger and Prince collaborated on a song, which became the subject of much gossip, because some claimed the stars’ real studio hook-up could be heard in the final version. Read on to find out more about their short-lived relationship and how Basinger finally confirmed that the scandalous conspiracy theory was actually true.
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While Danny Elfman composed the score for this version of Batman , Prince recorded an entire soundtrack album for the film. It included the singles “Batdance,” “Partyman, “and “Scandalous!” and was a hit, ending the year at No. 40 on the Billboard album chart.
The artist later recorded a maxi single for “Scandalous!” titled “The Scandalous Sex Suite,” which features Basinger. This version consists of three parts and is 19 minutes long.
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In a 1989 review, The Washington Post called “The Scandalous Sex Suite” Prince’s “ daffy new collaboration with actress Kim Basinger.” The review continues, “Basically, Prince sings and talks suggestively, while Basinger talks, moans and breathes even more suggestively in what sounds like audio outtakes from 9 ½ Weeks . How did they keep a straight face in the recording studio?” ( 9 ½ Weeks is a 1986 erotic drama that Basinger co-starred in with Mickey Rourke .)
As reported by Showbiz Cheat Sheet, Prince’s publicist Jill Willis addressed the song in a statement published by the newspaper Lawrence Journal-World . “The recording sessions were reportedly as hot as the tune. Paisley Park Records Vice President Alan Leeds visited the studio while Prince and Basinger were recording their vocals, but he left when Prince opened a jar of honey,” the article reads. Willis was quoted as saying, “I think the fact that he felt uncomfortable enough to leave the studio tells you something. I don’t think they were making tea.”
According to Showbiz Cheat Sheet, the rumor was that the sound engineers went to the studio the next day and found honey all over the mixing board.
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In 2015, Basinger spoke to The Daily Beast about Batman and her time dating Prince. Asked what it was like to go out with him, she said, “Oh god! You sound like my teenage daughter! He’s a brilliant talent. There’s no doubt about that. You know that, I’m sure.”
She continued, “Hey, listen, I don’t really have boundaries, so I enjoyed that time of my life. It was a really special moment in time, and I have great memories. I don’t put a lot of restrictions on myself, let’s just put it that way. If there’s someone I connect with, we’ll go on these rides together. So that was a neat time in my life.”
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The Daily Beast also asked Basinger whether “The Scandalous Sex Suite” really includes the sounds of her and Prince actually hooking up. She laughed but didn’t deny it.
“That song. Oh, I know. Oh dear! Ah, yes. Sex runs the world in a lot of ways!” the L.A. Confidential star responded. “If only women knew how powerful they were, they’d just say ‘no, no more babies,’ and then we’d run the world. So there you go!”
Prince and Basinger continued to work together on her album, Hollywood Affair . (It was never released.) Their relationship was pretty short-lived, however. In 1990, Basinger met her second husband Alec Baldwin when they co-starred in the 1991 movie The Marrying Man . She had been married to makeup artist Ron Snyder prior to the relationship with Prince. Baldwin and Basinger were married from 1993 to 2002.
Prince was also married twice: to Mayte Garcia from 1996 to 2000, and to Manuela Testolini from 2001 to 2006. He died at the age of 57 in 2016.
Barbra Streisand Says Marlon Brando Propositioned Her With His Wife in the Next Room
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If her upcoming memoir clocking in at 992 pages is any indication, Barbra Streisand has a lot of stories to tell. One particularly scandalous one involves late actor Marlon Brando , who became a friend of the star. According to Streisand’s book, Brando once propositioned her while his wife was in the very next room. The Oscar-winner turned him down, but it wasn’t the end of their relationship. It also wasn’t the last time that he hit on her.
Read on to find out more about Streisand and Brando’s relationship, which traces back to her crush on him before they ever met.
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Streisand was interviewed by Vanity Fair ahead of the Nov. 7 release of her memoir, My Name Is Barbra . The profile recaps a chapter of the book titled “Brando,” in which Streisand writes that the actor asked her to have sex with him while they were at a party in 1966. At the time, she would have been 24 while Brando was 42.
According to the book, Brando told Streisand, “I’d like to [expletive] you” while his wife was in an adjoining room. (The article does not state which wife was present, however. Brando had overlapping marriages with Movita Castaneda and Tarita Teriipaia , though the Castaneda marriage was later annulled.)
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According to her book, Streisand and Brando became friends and stayed that way until his death in 2004. The now-81-year-old also writes that after Brando saw the 1968 film adaptation of Funny Girl , he called her and said, “You were really good, but you run funny.” Vanity Fair ‘s Radhika Jones told Streisand that “Brando” is “one of the wilder chapters [she’s] ever encountered in literature.” The author responded, “Well, he’s Marlon Brando!”
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During a 2012 appearance on Piers Morgan Tonight , Streisand told another story about spending time with Brando. This one was about a road trip they took together in the ’70s.
“[Brando] wanted to take me to the desert, to see the wildflowers,” she said, adding that he said he wanted to “sleep over in a ghost town.”
Streisand said that she rejected his advances. “I was such a nice Jewish girl that I just said, ‘Marlon, I can’t stay overnight with you. I’ll go with you for the day.’” Again, she added that they remained friends and would talk on the phone “for hours and hours.”
Evidence of Streisand and Brando’s friendship was shared by John Travolta in on Instagram in 2020 . In a “flashback Friday” post, Travolta shared a photo of himself, his late wife Kelly Preston , Streisand, her husband James Brolin , Brando, and others. In the picture, Streisand sits on Brando’s lap. Travolta wrote in the caption, “A special party for Marlon Brando at Barbra Streisand’s house #FBF.” He did not specify what year the photo was taken.
Long before they ever met, Brando became Streisand’s celebrity crush after she saw him in 1955’s Guys and Dolls .
“Since I was 13, Marlon Brando was my favorite. I saw him in Guys and Dolls —and that was it,” she told W magazine in 2016. “Interestingly, there was a period of 27 years when I didn’t sing in public, because of stage fright, and when I finally did, I created a scenario in which I sang ‘I’ll Know’ with Marlon Brando in Guys and Dolls . I put myself in his movie! I invited Brando to my house to see the piece, and he made me take him through my entire show. We then watched a movie together. It was wonderful: He was my idol, my biggest crush.”
“I’ll Know” is a song from the Guys and Dolls . When Streisand performed the song at Madison Square Garden for her 1994 live album The Concert , she spoke about Brando and the film before singing it.
“This friend of mine named Barbara Sankell , who knew that I wanted to be an actress told me about this actor named Marlon Brando, who was in a movie called Guys and Dolls , which I also didn’t know was from a Broadway play. And so I went to see it, and it was truly a life-altering experience seeing Marlon Brando for the first time. It was the only movie that I ever sat through twice—just to get to see him again and to have another Mello Roll. Anyway, I’ll never forget this song.”
